The watershed concept and its use in segmentation : a brief history

The history of the watershed for segmentation is linked with the technological development of the image processing devices. In the mid seventies, computer memory was expensive, and computers slow. At the CMM we developed the first image analyzers, subsequently commercialized by Leitz under the name TAS holding binary image memories [20]. The result of an image transform may be stored in a memory and become the source of a second transform. Chaining